Last week's umpteenth special legislative session had a lot more to do with giving the Senate an opportunity to kill off the legislative pay raises than coming up with education funding reform ideas or passing a capital construction plan.

The genesis for this week's legislative special session on education funding is the Rev. Sen. James Meeks' call for a boycott of the Chicago Public Schools first day of fall classes. But a campaign threat is what really seemed to motivate Gov. Rod Blagojevich to take some action.

Gov. Rod Blagojevich is contemplating yet another special legislative session to take up a newly revised $25 billion infrastructure repair proposal for transportation, schools and economic development.

Women and children literally are being thrown into the street while the three-headed monster that runs Illinois government continues to do battle with itself.